The Arizona champion., 1887-11-05

which Stlll rem ilnS tne great an chor of all our public and private intercourse with nations and states as we'll as governmental guideauce It was being committed to paper In June I776 as a formula by Samuel Adams, Sherman, Dickson and John Rutledge. Dickinson drew up con stitu,ion of twenty articles which on ly served to p,ove how difficult and great was the task to handle the thI' teen states and col5ales which wa' so different in habit and wants in life IS climate.
 On the first of March I7SI Mary land yielded and the ar icla, of Con- federation became the organic laws oi our land. Government whl2h had no power to l:vy tax, or raise d sol dier or deal directly with an indNviiu- al or ketp It's engagements with iuI- rlgn powers.
 But this document was formed for the people. ..-...
 In September r7S6 another conven. lion was assembled at Annapolis and another on the following May aad llt- tie If anything was accomplished .
 The convention that wrote the con. stitu,ion assembled ID Philadelphia on May I4th -I7S7 one century ego, in Indepea lencc Hall. Over that con |. vrnuon presided no less christian, statesmaG and mlI!tary chieftAln, than "Ihe Father ot hIs country, George Washington. ,.......-..
 Ire aged Franklin, who was a strong believer in Christianity, made the motion Tor the election Ol chap lam, whose duty II should be 10 aS semble wlth them, to introduce the business of each day by an address 10 the Creatcr ot the universe, to en hghlen their minds with heav- enly wisdom, influence their hearts with love of truth and justice and crown their labors with complete and abundant success.
 In this convention vas three who had taken part in the Stamp Act Congress Dickenson, of Delaware Johnston. ot Connecticut, and Rut, edge, oi South Carolina. There were seven who were slgnerS of the declar' dtiun oi independence. and from the officers ol the revolutlun were Wash lnston, Mlfil,n. Hamilton and Pluck uey. A century has proved the great wisdom of our fathers. We are as Ionlshed at inc wonderful force of our National Constitution,
 The development of constitutional and municipal law was given by E M. Doe, attorney at law. He said
 Since Jubll played upon the harI and Tubal Cin wrought in lron and brass, each century has witnessed, ir some portion of the globe, a steady development of science and the arts Al the beginning of ihe last century the greater porrlon of the Unitec States of to-day was an unlnhablteC and unknown wilderness. Now tho whole land is netted and veined will telegraph wires and steel ralls. Ht would commend the works of Shakes peare for a knowledge of human na ture for q thorough knowledge o the elementary principles of law would refer to. the Holy Scriptures and more especially to the teaching oi Christ. The laws of our countr, are divided into two classes, the writ ten and the unwritten. The writer consists of treaties and of the consti tutions and statues of the general go oIernment and the several states anc terrilories, while tbe unwri,ten con sists of the decisions of the fedora and state courts, scattered througl thousands of volumes. Amongst ,h iegal lights and compllers of the un written law, we may mention tin, names of those like Marshall, Kent Livingston, Story, Dillon and Judge Cooley, the pride of Michigan
 "Since the adoption of the Consti Iution," by H J. Miller, though th' last was not ,he least, either in fore or less appreciated by the large ant attentive audience, who showed il b the applause that was given as h
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